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so you get the exact same answer?
in js, Boolean('' && 0) will give you the same answer as bool('' and 0) in python.
if i code golf in python (like the article does in js), i'll also get weird-looking code and "unexpected" outputs.
valid python: 0*"string"or"other_string"
flannery assoc is a shell company. who's providing the money for purchasing farmland at 5-10x its worth?
can you name a single officer of flannery assoc?
ah, hacker news: the frontline for the culture wars. i'm sure these comments will be constructive.
"i'm not a 'car guy' - where can i get a simple interface for a killswitch that only needs to be installed once and can be controlled from an app?"
^ this is where the value is, which is what the $1.2m is intended to explore.
the idea is to add a safety control for preventing harassment to a hugely popular communication medium, not to promote a company.
It's not the kind of association that makes Mozilla look good to me.
they're probably ok with that. can't please em all.
wait wait wait - you think that the characters not being all white men is "progressive"? that would mean that reality is progressive, right?
Based on the data here (which your source is based on) four out of the five rural hospital closures in NY are in counties that voted for Trump in 2016:
Irving, NY - Chautauqua County - Trump
Fulton, NY - Oswego County - Trump
Ticonderoga, NY - Essex County - Clinton
Amsterdam, NY - Montgomery County - Trump
Sidney, NY - Delaware County - Trump
- https://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/programs-projects/rural-heal...
- https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/president
Voting against Medicare or Obamacare aren't the only ways to vote against healthcare reform, as OP states:
Politics matters. Voters in rural areas (generally, of course) have consistently voted against policies that would help support health care in these rural locations
Nope. That will not work because the bill says services not people.
no it doesn't. it says that services can be denied based on moral objections. people are the ones that receive those services.
The article lies and pretends it's about the person. This is not true.
can you back this up? where in the bill text does it say this? i've read through it and nowhere does it make a differentiation between denying care based on "treatment" vs "person".
it isn't a "personal boogeyman" because it's literally in the text of the bill. you seem intent on pretending that this is related solely to "procedures" which apply to everyone when that is plainly not what the bill states.
(g) “Health care service” means medical research, medical 98 procedures, or medical services, including, but not limited to, 99 testing; diagnosis; referral; dispensing or administering any 100 drug, medication, or device; psychological therapy or 101 counseling; research; therapy; recordmaking procedures; set up 102 or performance of a surgery or procedure; or any other care or 103 services performed or provided by any health care provider. 104 (h) “Participate” or “participation” means to pay for or 105 take part in any way in providing or facilitating any health 106 care service or any part of such service.
furthermore:
(5) IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY.—A health care provider or 195 health care payor may not be held civilly liable solely for 196 declining to participate in or pay for a health care service on 197 the basis of a conscience-based objection.
meaning, a secretary in a doctor's office can prevent a gay person from making an appointment for any "procedure" at all because doing so would be facilitating a health care service that they personally object to.
here's the bill text: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/BillText/er/.... it's quite short, you should read it.
lmao jesus christ - "being gay or a minority and seeking medical care is the same as drone striking a wedding, actually." keep it classy, hn.
you keep saying this, but if a doctor believes that a gay person is not a human being because of religion, this bill would allow them to prevent giving that person any kind of care.
"i have a persistent cough and need a check up."
"sorry, i'm going to deny you a routine check up based on my belief that homosexuality is a sin. providing this procedure to you would be tacit support of homosexuality."
Great! Where am I going to get money to move from a small town to a city with a higher cost of living, and how will I - a high-school dropout - acquire the skills necessary to get one of these better jobs? How long will it take? Where will I live? How will my family survive without my income?
It's a market. If you don't like your job look for a better one.
Sure! I live in a small rural town with a poor public education system and no professional opportunities outside of manual labor. I had to leave high school to work to support my family. The most I can make is minimum wage, which means that I cannot afford basic necessities. What "better" jobs am I able to choose from? Or do I have to wait for "the government" to step in so my family doesn't starve?
Cuba is facing a famine right now
Because the US has embargoed Cuba for decades to cause hunger and desperation:
If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. - https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06...
Citation needed on all your other claims.
citation?
what news outlets do you read?
"After BuzzFeed News and ICIJ published a joint investigation, officials across the globe began taking action to finally thwart illicit financial activity and the criminals who move money through Western banks." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/fincen-files
"Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/insuranc...
"A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-...
"Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/secret-n...
"A Chicago Cop Is Accused Of Framing 51 People For Murder. Now, The Fight For Justice." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/detective...
"WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wid...
buzzfeed.com is not shutting down, their investigative reporting organization is: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
libraries wanted to make porn available to kids
this is an extremely bad faith interpretation of librarians upholding the first amendment.
but this is about public libraries, not school libraries. also, the linked video is from Alaska, not Missouri.
No I didn't. I've been working with UCR data for 10+ years and I recognize it in the wild. Furthermore, my points still stands regardless of the source: "there is no dataset that will allow you to reliably rank every 'major city' by crime stats because every city reports crime differently and no crime dataset also accounts for factors which may affect those statistics."
If you know where their source data comes from and why its so accurate, feel free to educate me. Their own site says this:
Q. Why rank cities on safety even though the FBI cautions against it?
A. This report and/or our data cannot and should not be used as a measure of the effectiveness of law enforcement due to the myriad factors that can contribute to crime in a community.
The quote you posted offers no actual information about how they purport to plug gaps in the data:
And further: Once we have these complete set of reported crime data, along with millions of geocoded reported crime incidents using a GIS, we begin our crime data development process.
The results are fine resolution, highly accurate crime data that are comparable nationally.
Our approach provides you the ability to look at small areas effectively."
Can you explain to me what their methodology is? Because this is just marketing-speak and doesn't provide any facts about how or why their analysis is accurate.
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Edit: from their own site!
Q. Why rank cities on safety even though the FBI cautions against it?
A. This report and/or our data cannot and should not be used as a measure of the effectiveness of law enforcement due to the myriad factors that can contribute to crime in a community.
- https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/faq/top100dangerous#q9
This is literally taken from the FBI doc that I linked to earlier.
On the link you provided (https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime) there's a "Source & Methodology" link which says "Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S." and "Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2021 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2022"
The FBI puts out one main source of crime stats - UCR. On the UCR site that I linked to: "The UCR Program includes data from more than 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies." Those numbers aren't a coincidence.
UCR is the main data product that people use for (usually incorrect) analysis. The FBI itself says that the data is incomplete to the point that it should not be used as a way to determine the safety of a location.
The numbers are misleading because they're based on voluntary reporting from law enforcement agencies to the FBI's UCR program. The FBI has this to say:
Data users should not rank locales because there are many factors that cause the nature and type of crime to vary from place to place. UCR statistics include only jurisdictional population figures along with reported crime, clearance, or arrest data. Rankings ignore the uniqueness of each locale. Some factors that are known to affect the volume and type of crime occurring from place to place are:
• Population density and degree of urbanization.
• Variations in composition of the population, particularly youth concentration.
• Stability of the population with respect to residents; mobility, commuting patterns, and transient factors.
• Economic conditions, including median income, poverty level, and job availability.
• Modes of transportation and highway systems.
• Cultural factors and educational, recreational, and religious characteristics.
• Family conditions with respect to divorce and family cohesiveness.
• Climate.
• Effective strength of law enforcement agencies.
• Administrative and investigative emphases on law enforcement.
• Policies of other components of the criminal justice system (i.e., prosecutorial, judicial, correctional, and probational).
• Citizens’ attitudes toward crime.
• Crime reporting practices of the citizenry.
That's the point: there is no dataset that will allow you to reliably rank every "major city" by crime stats because every city reports crime differently and no crime dataset also accounts for factors which may affect those statistics (eg law enforcement misreporting crimes for political reasons).
How do you even define a city in this case? You say those are normalized crime stats per 1k residents - how big are the metro areas? Are there any cities that also count a portion of their suburbs as part of the city? Does doing so reduce per-capita crime stats? etc...
My suggestion would be to thoroughly vet your sources before posting their conclusions as fact.
Because the dataset is incomplete if even a single city doesn't opt into sharing data, or only provides a portion of the real data.
From the FBI itself:
Pitfalls of Ranking
UCR data are sometimes used to compile rankings of individual jurisdictions and institutions of higher learning. These incomplete analyses have often created misleading perceptions which adversely affect geographic entities and their residents. For this reason, the FBI has a long-‐ standing policy against ranking participating law enforcement agencies on the basis of crime data alone. Despite repeated warnings against these practices, some data users continue to challenge and misunderstand this position.
That data is sourced from the FBI's UCR program (https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-an...) which relies on _voluntary reporting_ from law enforcement agencies.
you know what really bothers me? i want to build airplanes, but the people who make the parts have made it so, so complicated. all i want to do is fly around - but because some moron wants job security, they've made it needlessly complex. wings, body, engines: that's all it takes.